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Giving credit where credit is due: The Stone-(Thrower)-Wales designation revisited

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Naming things is a fundamental factor in communication between human beings. One might think that considering something now to be correct, when it clearly does not conform to the original meaning is a pity. Languages are in constant evolution, new words are always being created and new meanings appear, but what is important is that the same word is understood by everyone as designating the same thing. To give an example within the scope of this journal, the often unique properties and performance of carbon nanoforms have attracted many scientists whose background is not carbon-related, and this has induced a multiplication of the irrelevant use of terms whose meaning was clear and universally shared within the carbon community before the Nobel-recognized nanocarbon saga started. Now that the graphene lattice can be directly imaged by means of near-field microscopy or aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy, such a model looks definitely unrealistic.
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hal-01758090 , version 1 (04-04-2018)

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Marc Monthioux, Jean-Christophe Charlier. Giving credit where credit is due: The Stone-(Thrower)-Wales designation revisited. Carbon, 2014, 75, pp.1-4. ⟨10.1016/j.carbon.2014.03.054⟩. ⟨hal-01758090⟩
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